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Re: A manual problem about quoted string


From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: A manual problem about quoted string
Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 11:24:55 -0600
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[re-adding the list, for closure]

On 05/31/2011 11:22 AM, wu liang wrote:
> Sorry for this wrong report. It's careless typo replacing ` with ' in
> the test script.
> As this:
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> define(`foo',`This is macro 'foo'')
> foo
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Glad to hear you got it resolved.  And yes, ` vs. ' can be rather
insidious (which is part of the reason why autoconf uses changequote to
use [ vs. ]).

-- 
Eric Blake   address@hidden    +1-801-349-2682
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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